Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation

designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of

history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,

and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

For more, visit DailyStoic.com. Why do you wait for this to get harder? It's not going to be easy whenever you do it. It's going to be

uncomfortable. It's not going to pay off right away. It may even be a little painful. But you know what?

Procrastination isn't saving you.

It's only adding interest to the bill

you're going to have to pay eventually.

As Nathaniel Raitliff sings in his song's center of me,

it's a trap that we all fall into.

Hey, wait, why do I wait until the shit gets harder?

Hey, wait, I wait, I wish on a revenue.

So I wait, I wait until the shit gets harder. Oh, I wait until the ship gets harder alone in my head.

We do this to tomorrow what we could do today. We delay

conversations we need to have, only making them more painful when we ultimately do have them. We put off

eating healthier, making it harder to get started the longer we work. We put off going to the gym

or exercising, not thinking about how much more effort that time will cost us. We tell ourselves,

we'll deal with our phone addiction, but we're too busy to start this week. Maybe after this big

project at work, maybe after things settle down a bit, maybe after your

parents visit, maybe after this next birthday, and on and on. How much longer are you going to wait,

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